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050			_aLB 1028 .B54 2020
100			_aBiesta, Gert _eauthor
245		0	_aEducational research : _ban unorthodox introduction / _cGert Biesta
260			_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _cc2020
300			_aviii, 169 pages ; _c24 cm.
365			_bUSD30
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aForeword Prologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research -- 1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism -- 2. Making Education Better -- 3. 'What Works' is Not Enough -- 4. The Practice of Education -- 5. Configurations of Educational Research -- 6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy -- 7. Knowledge Reconsidered -- 8. The Political Economy of Academic Publishing -- Epilogue: Too Much Research? -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.
520			_aEducational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental questions such as what education actually 'is' and what it is for. In doing so, the book raises questions that more 'orthodox' introductions to the theory and practice of educational research often leave aside.
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